Blair Speedy at the Australian reports that Redgroup Retail, which owns both Borders and Angus & Robertson, will roll out the Kobo platform, developed by Canadian book chain Indigo, within the next month or so. Kobo books can be read on a range of devices, including phones and laptops. Overall there’s quite a lot of development in the local e-book marketplace, even if the iPad won’t initially offer any e-book options in Australia.

Redgroup Retail to launch e-books [The Australian]

I don’t tend to read every article I see about ebooks for two main reasons. There are far too many articles to read, and far too few libraries loan fiction ebooks which is where I get my books from.

However, I do get the sense that things are really ramping up this year (*cough* ipad *cough*)